Green Your Office – Certification Programs for Green Furniture

Posted on 02 July 2010

Choosing green furniture is one aspect of ensuring you have a green office but how do you know if your office furniture is environmentally friendly? As consumer demand for green furniture increases, manufactures are working to implement green practices in both production and operation. This has led to a range of environmental certifications that indicate [...]

Materials in Green Furniture

Posted on 24 June 2010

With the range of furniture on the market today selecting furniture that is good for both you and the environment can be a challenge. Before making your buying decisions, it helps to be armed with a little knowledge of how furniture is made and the environmental impacts of the materials used. To get you started [...]

Green Offices – How to Choose a Green Office Chair

Posted on 23 June 2010

Anyone who spends hours sitting at a desk knows that a good office chair is vital to their comfort and productivity. It is commonly known that having an office chair that does not suit you or the work you do will affect your concentration and could potentially lead to long term back problems. However when [...]

4 Actions for a Green Office

Posted on 19 June 2010

Today offices and office buildings are everywhere – from large corporations with many staff to the millions of small home offices used for business, study or juggling the numerous tasks of running a household.   With the number of offices in the world even small changes can lead to huge environmental savings.  Check out these four areas [...]

Choosing Sustainable Wood as Green Business Practice

Posted on 16 February 2010

When we think about green business practices our business could engage in, we tend to think of the obvious things that we hear about everyday such as the use of energy and water and emissions of carbon. However there are other less obvious ways for a business to go green, for example choosing sustainable wood [...]

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Community & Personal Services

How Funeral Services are Implementing Green Business Practices

Posted on 06 October 2009

Most people don’t think about the impact their death will have, let alone the environmental impact their body will have after they die. The provision of funeral and burial services is another industry that is making changes to go green and provide customers with choices that will reduce their environmental impact after they’re gone.

Energy Management

Saving Energy by Powering Down Computers

Saving Energy by Powering Down Computers

Posted on 10 November 2009

Want a quick green business practice to reduce the energy used in your office? A standard part of both Windows and Mac operating systems are power management features that put the computer to sleep after a period of inactivity. These power options can be changed by the user and in some computers are not activated [...]

Food & Beverage

Benefits of Green Business Practices in Wineries

Posted on 30 August 2009

The art of wine making is well known for requiring great skill with wine connoisseurs judging every aspect of the wine from appearance to flavour.  Increasingly wine lovers are considering another characteristic – whether the wine was produced sustainably with minimal environmental impacts.

Green Business Books

You Can’t Afford Not to be Green by YUDU Media

You Can’t Afford Not to be Green by YUDU Media

Posted on 28 August 2009

You Can’t Afford Not to be Green is a great digital publication on ways to go green. The book has been published online by YUDU Media, an online library where users can read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content without the environmental impacts of printing. Click on the image above to read You Can’t [...]

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